The Beginning and the end
My name is Stan and I have an interesting life. I don't see lots of friends around but my neighborhood is great! If I could change one thing about it though, I would have to change the fact that no one talks to me at all. Most of my neighbors think I am messed up or on drugs just because of my love for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. That does not bother me at all. My parents always said to trust yourself and don't let go of yourself. They were really nice, yet wise, people. Part of why I don't think my life is awesome is because of their deaths. The other part is just the whole world. Nobody acts the way they used to when I was younger. I've seen many people that I knew back then from my parents. Man, have they changed or what. My home is rather nice and I somehow manage to pay it off along with all of my bills and what not. I work in an office at a newspaper company. It's a pretty big office with a nice big desk, the most comfortable chair ever and a stack of papers bigger than a pine tree! That's basically my job. Papers and papers. There was never a time when I hated that word, papers, but it does get me lots of money and food on the table. I don't like to take my car to work, seeing as how I have enough things to pay off already and my home is close to my job, so I just ride my bike instead. The highlight of my day is when I ride my bike because... because it just makes me so happy whenever I get to see the wide, spacious sky and what is left of the beautiful world. Now that brings me to the next day.
Like any other day, I would go to work. Nothing interesting at all just a man riding his bike to work. Most people take their cars or trucks to their job. Not many people care about the once beautiful world as I do now, but whatever. So during work, I ,of course, got more and more papers to work on, but something unusual happened. I heard something I have not heard in a long time. Animal control. Usually, animals would never run astray. After work, I met with an old friend I don't talk to often and his name was Chester. We were friends in 3rd grade but haven't talked since then. Maybe it was because he was a smoker and I would never bother talking to him. Luckily, he works at the animal control center. I started with something simple to start off the conversation.
"Hello Chester, remember me?"
He needed a second to remind himself of who I was.
Once he knew , he said, "Well how about that. It's Stan! How are you doing Stan I have not seen you in a while."
"I'm great Chester" I said, " but I'm not here to really have a great conversation with you, I would just like to know what happened earlier today."
He stopped for a second and took a gulp before he spoke.
"That is none of your concern, Stan."
"No it is my concern!" I replied, furious he would not tell me. "I heard your animal control sirens go off like never before and it must mean something very serious has happened, now tell me!"
Chester looked like he was in shock from my behavior but then told me what I wished to hear.
"Now you have to believe me when I say because we knew what we saw was real." He took a deep breath. "I saw a pony with wings and a rainbow tail and mane."
When those words came to my ears I let out a chuckle, but then he took me into the back of the building with all the animals. There, shaking in fear of it's surroundings, was a small pony with wings and a rainbo- who am I kidding this is obviously Rainbow Dash! I could not believe what my eyes were seeing. Rainbow Dash is my favorite character in My Little Pony. She always made things more, ah what's the word... brighter. Now, I am seeing her off of my tv screen and into my world.
"Yep. This is the little devil right here." said Chester.
How could he say such a thing about a small filly who couldn't even hurt anyone?!
Speaking my mind, I said, "What is going to happen to her?"
"Well, they said scientists might be interested in finding out if this thing could be useful for medicines or something like that." responded Chester.
Hearing him call her "thing" made me want to punch him. She obviously had no clue what to do and did not trust Chester by an inch. I devised a plan to get her out. Before I left, I managed to get Chester's keys to the cage. After hours, I snook back into the building and opened the door to the back room. As I expected, I saw the young filly Rainbow Dash trying her best to get some sleep, but she was still shivering with fear. I walked up to her cage and she backed away from me.
"It's ok. It's ok I am not here to hurt you but I need you to help me get you out of here as quick as possible!" I said.
She seemed to trust me after I spoke those words. I took her out and hid her under this blanket I brought. Inside the cage, I left my light blue alien, from when I was a kid, on the cold bottom of the cage and locked it inside to serve as a decoy. The good news is there was not a single surveillance camera to be found. I put her in my bike's basket and we rode all the way back to my house.
Along the way, I made sure that not a single person saw her for i knew not what they might do if they saw her. Even in the warm blanket, she was still shaking. It wasn't really that cold out, so, I assumed that she still did not trust me that much. I don't really know how to make her trust me more. When we got to my home, I opened the door and turned on the lights. As soon as I shut the door, the young filly struggled to get out of the blanket and made it out. She was hiding from me under the couch. Again, I had no clue how to gain her trust. To start off, I just sat down right across from the place the filly was hiding. "You don't have to be afraid. I am not here to harm you, but I do want to help you." I said. A blank expression was put on her face as she started crawling out slowly from under the couch. The fact that she said absolutely nothing made me believe that she obviously did not know how to speak. I let her make the first move. She decided to move a bit closer to me, so, I did not move a muscle to let her know that I was not looking to hurt her. Her hooves were silent as she walked across the hardwood floor. I started to sweat a bit. Then, she decided to hop up onto my lap. That made me speechless. Nothing was to even be said at all. Besides, even if i did speak I wouldn't know what to say. The young filly let out a sigh of relief and smiled as she fell asleep. I know what I should be thinking is, "OH MY GOD! A FILLY RAINBOW DASH SLEEPING ON MY LAP!" but what i really am thinking is, "Why is she here?" With the many thoughts circulating in my brain, I close my eyes and fall asleep too. Today had to be the best day of my life. I've been alone for all these years and now... now i finally have someone to keep me company. There is nothing I want more than to be here with this filly Rainbow Dash.
Well, I have to say, Rainbow and I just had the most spectacular day! It was rather rainy outside, so, we stayed inside and did many things. First, we played our first board game and she won. Second, I taught her a few things on speaking and writing. Rainbow did surprisingly well with that! I figured that she might struggle with it a bit, bit nope! She did it! Her first word was actually rather surprising as well. What she said was, "cloud." Now, how could she even know what a cloud was when I didn't even teach it to her. Maybe she is just that good at it or maybe she learned it from her actual- I don't even want to say it. Just the thought that she will not be here forever makes me partially sad. I guess I just have to enjoy every minute i have with her because it won't be long before she... leaves. Okay, back to our day. The very last thing we did was spend maybe a few minutes outside. Since she was very different from other ponies on earth, I had to keep it a secret that she was different and that nobody else should know about her. Everyday, she would hoist herself up onto the bathroom counter top just to look at herself and whenever I was in there, she'd look at me and smile. This might be a weird thing to say, but I've never loved being in my bathroom that much before. With Rainbow Dash being here, it seems like everything is just ten times better. My life was starting to turn out great.
After about 8 years from when I found Rainbow, I can't believe what she did. Yes, she learned how to talk better, but she also learned how to fly! That's right, fly! Wow, what a stunning thing to see and how amazing it was to just be there when she did it. This was quite the day for her and I. Since she has wings and my as well get to know how to use them, I figured I my as well find some place where she can practice without being seen. The forest was the perfect place! When I took her there, she didn't know what to do at all and neither did I.
So, I told her, "Dash. Just try flapping your wings as fast as you can. Maybe you'll start to fly."
That was a dumb thing to say in the first place, but it seemed to do something. I held her up in the air as she practiced flapping her wings. A few tries later, she started to fly higher and higher until!.. she was in the sky.
"Dad! Dad, look I'm doing it!" said Rainbow Dash.
What... what did she just say?! Did she call me, dad?! My ears did not deceive me because i knew what I heard... I just couldn't believe it. What do I say now? I mean, I do think of her as one of my own, but I don't know what to say. Once again, I'm speechless. What she called me could not have made me more happy than I was right then and there. She is the best thing that has ever happened to my life and I wish I didn't have to let her go. From here on out, I think of her as... my daughter.
Dash is about 11 years old now. Man, have the years gone by. I figured it was about time that she knew the truth about herself. She has her own room and doesn't need to sleep with me anymore. All I really need is to know she is happy where she is now. Anyway, back to what I need to tell her.
I start off with, "Hey Dash? Can you come in the living room for a second?"
"Sure dad. Give me a minute." she responded.
Her voice sounded so enthusiastic, but mine was just sad and morose because of what I had to say.
When she walked in the room she asked me, "What's up?"
My face was starting to tear up a bit. I have no clue why I mean, it might be from the fact that I don't know how she might react to this.
"I have to tell you something important Dash." I said trying my best to keep the unknown tears away. "When you first came to me, you were not born here really. An animal control guy name Chester got a call from some people that were freaked out about you because you were like something they have never seen before. Before they called Chester, they called the government who then contacted Area 51. You were going to be experimented on and I... just couldn't let that happen. So, when I saw you afraid of Chester inside that cage, I sneaked you out of that awful place and brought you here. Since then you have been living with me. The truth is that you are a character from a tv show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It was just hard to tell you that when you were younger. Just know that you are not different because of that."
I got what I expected. Her beautiful smile turned into a sad expression.
"What? Does this mean I am not your daughter?! I'm not from this world at all?! How did I get here then?!" Dash replied.
I responded, "That is the only thing I don't know is how you got here in the first place. If I did then I would tell you but I just don't."
She stormed up to her room after hearing what I just said. Now, I was more upset than ever before. I didn't know if she was mad or sad, but I was pretty certain that she was confused. Did I do the right thing? Maybe. If I didn't tell her myself then I wouldn't know what to do when she found out herself. This day was the worst day of my whole entire life.
Right after that, I had to go and see if she was okay. Thankfully, she was still in her room, but she was pouting and staring out the window. It was another rainy day. Dash heard me enter the room. Her eyes fell off the window for a second to glance at me and then she went back to staring out the window.
"Uh... um... D-Dash? Are you okay?" I said feeling nervous and sad.
When I spoke those words, something unexpected happened. She ran up to me and wrapped her arms around me. I could tell she was crying because I felt her tears hit the back of my neck.
"Dad?" she started still with tears in her eyes. "Thank you for telling me... about who I really am. When I look in the mirror each day, I just kind of... wondered why I couldn't go outside much like the other ponies from this world. But I can now live my life knowing who I am. No more questions, except one. Will this change how you feel about me?" I thought to myself, what kind of question is that? So, I let her down and told her straight up, "Dash, there is nothing that could change the way I feel about you. You're my daughter and nothing will change that no matter how bad it is." "Thanks dad. I'm glad to hear that." she said, smiling behind her tears. We both shared a smile after that argument. Nothing could have been better than that. Right now, my heaven is with her.
The very next day, we sat down on the sofa together watching the news. A story I was never expecting to come on the news, actually came on.
"In further news, believe me when I say, a light blue pony with wings and rainbow mane has gone missing from the animal control center. The government is looking for it. If you find this pony," A picture came on the screen of Rainbow Dash. "then we advise you to report it to this news station." said the reporter.
How do I go about this? Rainbow Dash was watching this too and now she knew she was a fugitive. What bothers me is how could Chester be so stupid to finally figure out that the light blue alien wasn't actually Dash herself?!
"Dad, what should we do?" said Dash sounding pretty scared.
The thing was I had no clue what to do. If we moved somewhere else, what're the odds that I can get her on an airplane. Well, she does have wings, but then they could probably see her outside the window and call the government unless! Unless, we drive somewhere. Maybe that's the solution. I haven't driven my car anywhere for about 20 years.
So, I said,"I'll tell you what we are going to do. Pack your things, Dash. We are getting out of here."
But I missed something. They had a prime suspect and it was... me. Well, they weren't wrong, but how could they know? Chester! He probably knew about his keys after 9 years. What a loser. We heard a knock on the door.
"Open up! It's the police!"
Crap! Now what. I can't hide her in time. The only thing I could do was open the door.
"Sir please step aside. We need to search your home." said the officer.
I responded, "You can't!"
He looked at me weird and then handed me this piece of paper. A search warrant! Guess I was wrong about them not being able to search my house. I was getting so scared I could not even breath right. Now what do I do! My whole life was about to be a lot worse.
Well, they found her. They got Dash. I tried to save her, but nothing I did could stop them. Good news is we are now riding in the same police truck together, but we weren't being taken to the station. Area 51 was the place we were going. Really? They think she is an alien? How stupid can our government get?! Whatever, it doesn't matter. Either way, I'd never get to see her again no matter where they take us. We arrived at Area 51. They took us out of the truck and escorted us to this area that made of tough iron and lit by one light bulb and locked us in. You could hear them talking about what they were going to do with Rainbow Dash. I tried shutting my ears closed so I didn't have to hear it, but then I saw how Dash was crying with tears of fear. God, I've never seen her more scared in my life even when I found her. The worst part was she heard it too. But one thing they said made my heart stop for a brief second.
"If it doesn't cooperate, then we have to bring it down and the rest of your experiment."
I couldn't let that happen. Not to my daughter. They finally came in our cell and took us away but..... but took us down different hallways.
"DAD! DAD!" Dash shouted as she struggled to break free.
"NO! DASH! WAIT! DASH!!!" I responded.
Then the door shut close and we could not hear each other. No way! This won't happen. I managed to break free of the officers grip and knocked them both out with my fist as they attempted to come at me and grab me again. With much fury, I ripped the handle off the door and it opened. I ran at top speed towards where Dash was. Almost there. The alarm went off. Finally, I found her. She was chained to the table with a doctor about to cut her open with a scalpel. Again, I kicked down the door with all my might and tackled the doctor to the ground. Every other person in there was trying to catch me. I stole the keys to Dash's chains and unlocked her as they chased me around the table. Suddenly, something unexpected happened. A bit of wind started to pick up in the room. Papers started to fly everywhere. Every person in the room seized what they were doing. What is that? Some purple spiraling thing came out of nowhere. Along with it came out a purple.... alicorn?! Twilight Sparkle?! What was this?! Was she here to save us?! An officer came in the room and pulled out his gun and pointed it at me... and then Dash.
"Dash! Run to the portal!" I said.
Twilight said, "What is going on here?!"
The officer took a shot at the pony and missed. Dash ran by Twilight. She knew her from the conversation we had yesterday. I told her that if she ever finds this mare that she must trust her like she does me.
Twilight was quick with her words as she said, "Well Rainbow Dash, it's time to go!"
"DAD! COME ON!" said Dash.
I looked at her with sad eyes full of tears.
"He cannot come along with us. We need to go. NOW!" Twilight said.
After she said what she said, Rainbow Dash looked at me with eyes full of more tears than mine. She didn't understand why I couldn't come along, but then spoke.
"I LOVE YOU DAD! DON'T EVER FORGET ME!"
How could I not smile about that? What she said was probably the thing I will cherish most about her because this was THE last time I would ever see her again. My daughter. If only she could stay... but it was going to happen either way. Twilight would have came to my home when we were making memories and having the best days of our life. Everyday I had with Dash, was counted as the best day ever, at least to me and I hope she saw it that way too. I loved her as much as she loved me. Then, the officer with the gun aimed directly at Dash. I stood up, ran and took a leap in front of the shot he took.
"NO! DAD! WAIT TWILIGHT! WAIT!" Dash cried.
"Dash... get out... of here. I'll be fine. Please. Just be safe. For me." I said with the few words I had left.
Her eyes were bawling as multiple tears fell from her face. Twilight dragged her into the portal. Rainbow Dash was struggling as she was being tugged into the portal. She was about to leave. Before she did, she looked back at me. All I did was smile... and cry. They were now gone and there I lie in Area 51 in sorrow of my loss, but glad that she is still safe. That's all I care about in the end. In fact, that's all I ever really cared about in years. What else could I care about? My safety? No. I didn't need to worry about myself because I had a best friend to help me watch out for myself and that best friend was my daughter. That was what made my life complete. If she didn't come into my life, then... then my life would be even more miserable than it was before. To think that if I didn't do what I did back at the animal control building then I would not have an amazing life, my own family really and a new day to look forward to. I do not regret what I did back there or even here though I still don't know how she got here. Now, I don't really care. Because of it, I gained something I have not experienced in a long time. Happiness. So, why did I do it? Well, because I saw a filly that needed help for one, but the real reason is that I feel she used to be just like me when I was born in this world. A little bit scared. If I didn't do it... she'd be dead and that was unacceptable for me. Since she's gone, you might think that I'm sad. I thought so too, but she's still alive and I died living a great life. So I may be a bit sad. One thing for sure is, I'm not alone
THE END
